scholarly journals Different roles of protein kinase C-β and -δ in arachidonic acid cascade, superoxide formation and phosphoinositide hydrolysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 292 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Duyster ◽  
H Schwende ◽  
E Fitzke ◽  
H Hidaka ◽  
P Dieter

In contrast with protein kinase C (PKC)-beta, PKC-delta is exclusively detectable in the membrane fraction of liver macrophages. After long-term treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) PKC-beta is depleted faster (within 3 h) than PKC-delta (> 7h). Simultaneously, pretreatment with PMA for 3 h inhibits the PMA- and zymosan-induced generation of superoxide and the PMA-induced formation of prostaglandin (PG) E2, whereas a preincubation of more than 7 h is required to affect the zymosan-induced release of PGE2 and inositol phosphates. These results support an involvement of PKC-beta in the PMA-induced activation of the arachidonic acid cascade and in superoxide formation and imply an involvement of PKC-delta in zymosan-induced phosphoinositide hydrolysis and PGE2 formation. Two phorbol ester derivates, sapintoxin A (SAPA) and 12-deoxyphorbol 13-phenylacetate 20-acetate (DOPPA), which have been previously reported to activate preferentially PLC-beta but not PKC-delta in vitro [Ryves, Evans, Olivier, Parker and Evans (1992) FEBS Lett. 288, 5-9], induce the formation of PGE2 and superoxide, down-regulate PKC-delta and potentiate inositol phosphate formation in parallel SAPA, but not DOPPA, down-regulates PKC-beta and inhibits the PMA-induced formation of eicosanoids and superoxide.

1990 ◽  
Vol 270 (3) ◽  
pp. 679-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Gat-Yablonski ◽  
R Sagi-Eisenberg

Short-term treatment of rat basophilic leukaemia (RBL-2H3) cells with the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) activates protein kinase C (PKC) and results in the inhibition of the IgE-dependent formation of inositol phosphates, but in the potentiation of serotonin secretion. Long-term treatment with TPA, which depletes the cells of their endogenous PKC, eliminates both Ca2(+)-ionophore- and TPA- as well as IgE-dependent secretion, but it potentiates by 1.7-fold IgE-induced inositol phosphate formation. Taken together, these observations strongly suggest that the dual actions of TPA on IgE-dependent responses are both mediated by PKC. The opposing effects of TPA are differentially down-regulated. Following TPA treatment, the rate by which the cells lose their ability to undergo exocytosis is faster than the rate at which inhibition of inositol phosphates formation is relieved and their production potentiated. In addition, both processes show different sensitivities to inhibitors of PKC action. Whereas IgE-dependent secretion is completely blocked by the PKC inhibitors K252a, H-7 and sphingosine [concns. causing 50% inhibition (IC50 values) = 25 ng/ml 80 microns and 30 microns respectively], these inhibitors do not relieve inhibition of inositol phosphate formation by TPA, nor do they potentiate this response. These results may imply that the bidirectional control exerted by PKC on IgE-dependent responses is mediated by its different isoenzymes.


Development ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.P. Otte ◽  
I.M. Kramer ◽  
M. Mannesse ◽  
C. Lambrechts ◽  
A.J. Durston

Recently, we presented evidence that protein kinase C (PKC) is involved in mediating the endogenous signals that induced competent Xenopus ectoderm to differentiate to neural tissue. We report here that PKC is already strongly activated in neural-induced ectoderm from midgastrula embryos and that this activation runs parallel with an increase in the level of inositol phosphates. We further identify several proteins that are phosphorylated, both in natural neural-induced ectoderm and in TPA-treated ectoderm, suggesting that they are phosphorylated through the PKC route. We found no major changes in PKC activity among different pregastrula stages, including the unfertilized egg. However, PKC isolated from animal, ectodermal cells is highly sensitive to Ca2+ and can be activated by low concentrations, (6–25 microM) of arachidonic acid, while PKC isolated from vegetal, endodermal cells is more insensitive to Ca2+ and cannot be activated by arachidonic acid. These results suggest that different PKC isozymes are present in animal and vegetal cells.


1989 ◽  
Vol 264 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
M K Magnússon ◽  
H Halldórsson ◽  
M Kjeld ◽  
G Thorgeirsson

In order to elucidate the role of guanine-nucleotide-binding proteins (G-proteins) in endothelial prostacyclin (PGI2) production, human umbilical vein endothelial cells, prelabelled with either [3H]inositol or [3H]arachidonic acid, were stimulated with the non-specific G-protein activator aluminium fluoride (AlF4-). AlF4- caused a dose- and time-dependent generation of inositol phosphates, release of arachidonic acid and production of PGI2. The curves for the three events were similar. When the cells were stimulated in low extracellular calcium (60 nM), they released [3H]arachidonic acid and produced PGI2, but depleting the intracellular Ca2+ stores by pretreatment with the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 totally inhibited both events, although the cells still responded when extracellular Ca2+ was added. The Ca2+ ionophore did not inhibit the generation of inositol phosphates in cells maintained at low extracellular Ca2+. Pertussis toxin pretreatment (14 h) altered neither inositol phosphate nor PGI2 production in response to AlF4-. To investigate the functional role of the diacylglycerol/protein kinase C arm of the phosphoinositide system, the cells were pretreated with the protein kinase C activator 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) or the protein kinase C inhibitor 1-(5-isoquinolinylsulphonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H7). TPA inhibited the AlF4(-)-induced inositol phosphate generation but stimulated both the release of arachidonic acid and the production of PGI2. H7 had opposite effects both on inositol phosphate generation and on PGI2 production. These results suggest that AlF4(-)-induced PGI2 production is mediated by a pertussis-toxin-insensitive G-protein which activates the phosphoinositide second messenger system. This production of PGI2 can be modulated by protein kinase C activation, both at the level of inositol phosphate generation and at the level of arachidonic acid release.


1990 ◽  
Vol 270 (2) ◽  
pp. 557-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
K D Brown ◽  
C J Littlewood ◽  
D M Blakeley

In Swiss 3T3 cells, depletion of protein kinase C (PKC) by prolonged incubation with phorbol esters potentiates the formation of total inositol phosphates in response to bombesin or vasopressin [Blakeley, Corps & Brown (1989) Biochem. J. 258, 177-185]. The characteristics of the accumulation of inositol phosphates in control and PKC-depleted cells stimulated by bombesin, vasopressin or prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) have now been compared. The potentiation of the PGF2 alpha response was greater than that of the vasopressin response which was, in turn, greater than that of the bombesin response. The time courses of the responses to all three agonists were biphasic, and both phases of the response were amplified in the PKC-depleted cells. These results provide further evidence for the involvement of a PKC-mediated negative-feedback loop regulating phosphoinositide hydrolysis in response to several 3T3 cell mitogens. The differential potentiation of the response to these agonists suggests that PKC might act at multiple sites within the signal transduction pathway.


1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
J S Chun ◽  
B S Jacobson

Release of arachidonic acid (AA) and subsequent formation of a lipoxygenase (LOX) metabolite(s) is an obligatory signal to induce spreading of HeLa cells on a gelatin substratum (Chun and Jacobson, 1992). This study characterizes signaling pathways that follow the LOX metabolite(s) formation. Levels of diacylglycerol (DG) increase upon attachment and before cell spreading on a gelatin substratum. DG production and cell spreading are insignificant when phospholipase A2 (PLA2) or LOX is blocked. In contrast, when cells in suspension where PLA2 activity is not stimulated are treated with exogenous AA, DG production is turned on, and inhibition of LOX turns it off. This indicates that the formation of a LOX metabolite(s) from AA released during cell attachment induces the production of DG. Consistent with the DG production is the activation of protein kinase C (PKC) which, as with AA and DG, occurs upon attachment and before cell spreading. Inhibition of AA release and subsequent DG production blocks both PKC activation and cell spreading. Cell spreading is also blocked by the inhibition of PKC with calphostin C or sphingosine. The inhibition of cell spreading induced by blocking AA release is reversed by the direct activation of PKC with phorbol ester. However, the inhibition of cell spreading induced by PKC inhibition is not reversed by exogenously applied AA. In addition, inhibition of PKC does not block AA release and DG production. The data indicate that there is a sequence of events triggered by HeLa cell attachment to a gelatin substratum that leads to the initiation of cell spreading: AA release, a LOX metabolite(s) formation, DG production, and PKC activation. The data also provide evidence indicating that HeLa cell spreading is a cyclic feedback amplification process centered on the production of AA, which is the first messenger produced in the sequence of messengers initiating cell spreading. Both DG and PKC activity that are increased during HeLa cell attachment to a gelatin substratum appear to be involved. DG not only activates PKC, which is essential for cell spreading, but is also hydrolyzed to AA. PKC, which is initially activated as consequence of AA production, also increases more AA production by activating PLA2.


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